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Tufted Duck-Yes!

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diane Ford

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diane Ford

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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:29:21 -0700

Hi all,

  First, gotta thank Ron G. for finding this bird. Simply wonderful!

  I drove over the BB and arrived at the Holiday Inn Xpress at about 11:35.  No one was present, but within 15 minutes a Pa birder showed up. Les saw the duck as well.  
 The Tufted Duck (duck with a mullet) was swiming and diving in company with some Lesser and Greater Scaup.  At first they were in the cove closer to the barge thing in the water, and then they swam in the middle. The Tufted kept in the middle of the scaup.  Two other birders were there as I left. Nice Life-list bird. 
There were (I think) 2 GBB gulls farther out in the water.
On the way out, the trans was mushy but got me home.....

D.Ford/Bethesda, Md